Bail set in fight between current and ex husbands

An altercation between a Chicago woman’s ex-husband and current husband ended with one man stabbing the other in the face and torso, prosecutors said today.

Judge Adam D. Bourgeois Jr. ordered the current husband, Leodeous Clark Jr., held Saturday in lieu of $50,000 bail on a felony charge of aggravated battery with a weapon.

Prosecutors said Clark, 37, approached the ex-husband in the 1300 block of North Cleveland Avenue in the Old Town neighborhood and stabbed him about 4:30 p.m. March 16. The ex-husband was in the hospital for six days, prosecutors said, recuperating from a collapsed artery and broken nose.

But Clark tells a different story about the stabbing, said defense attorney Sam Adam Jr.

Adam said his client approached the victim to confront him about attacks on his wife that have continued since the divorce. The victim pulled the knife and rushed at Clark, Adam said, but Clark wrested the knife away and stabbed the man.

Clark voluntarily went to police in March to report the incident and Clark’s wife sought an order of protection against her ex-husband, Adam said.

Clark, who lives on the 8900 block of South Commercial Avenue, was arrested Friday morning outside a hearing on that order, Adam said.